their stead and thus promote the agricul- ture of this county by increasing the demand for and raising the price of rye and corn. A committee was also appointed to draft and circulate a pe- tition to present to Congress to this end. This is quite a comparison with 20th Century prohibition. During

peculiar architecture of this house has attracted many. I now wish to present to you a few highly interesting bits of information not recorded in any history of Hans Herr's settlement that have come to my attention, and I have scanned all of which I have any knowledge of. One informant, Mr. David Huber

FEDERAL REVENUES OF LANCASTER COUNTY, PA., FROM ABOUT 1850 to DATE By C. H. Martin, June 1, 1923 The critical period in American History about 1835 to 1840 has been com- memorated in a rather lasting manner by striking coins, known as 'Hard Times Tokens' bearing inscriptions of reference to the

of the figure "Eight" on the coin, was the ruling dollar or unit of coin value in the world and for several cen- turies following Columbus' discovery, it was the dominent money in the western world. The Spanish dollar or "Piece of Eight" known in history, and a chief figure of fiction, due to the

distillation of whisky, which in later years required the registra- tion of the stills and was the source of a great amount of Provincial and Federal Revenues, began in Lancaster County. Mombert, in his history of Lancaster County, states that the friendly relations between England and the Colonies would

. There were quite a number of representatives from the various states that went down there to assist, and among them was a man from Columbia. Of course when I assigned the ones going down their rooms, etc., I did not think any- thing of those who were registered from points in Massachusetts, Illinois